Game data retrieved from an alternate archive.
Lee Retzlaff — a retail salesperson from Pewee Valley, Kentucky
Alicen Nadal — an office manager from Richmond Hill, New York
John Lindquist — an attorney from Marietta, Georgia (whose 3-day cash winnings total $43,000)
| Player | First Commercial | End of Jeopardy! | End of Double Jeopardy! | Final | Coryat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| John | $1,800 | $3,600 | $13,600 |
$5,599
3rd place: $1,000 |
$13,600
18 R, 1 W |
| Alicen | $1,400 | $3,600 | $4,800 |
$8,801
New champion: $8,801 |
$4,800
10 R, 2 W |
| Lee | $4,600 | $8,200 | $10,800 |
$7,999
2nd place: $2,000 |
$11,800
18 R (including 2 DDs), 2 W (including 1 DD) |
| STATE HOLIDAYS | CONVERBS | NONPOTENT POTABLES | WHAT'S UP, DOC? | TV DETECTIVES | HOLMES & WATSON |
|
$200
[6]
LBJ's August 27 birthday is a holiday in this state
Texas
Alicen
|
$200
[26]
"Don't make something out of" this
nothing
Alicen
|
$200
[1]
The "new" formula for this soda was announced on April 23, 1985; the "classic" formula was back within 3 months
Coca-Cola
John
|
$200
[21]
Stay out of brawls, because these spells of blackouts & confusion caused by blows are getting worse
concussions
Lee
|
$200
[13]
A former homicide detective on "NYPD BLUE", he's now solving homicides on "CSI: Miami"
David Caruso
Alicen
|
$200
[11]
In 1980 he defended his heavyweight belt by taking on Muhammad Ali
Larry Holmes
Lee
|
|
$400
[7]
Kentucky celebrates June 3 as Confederate Memorial Day; Florida celebrates it as this man's birthday
Jefferson Davis
Lee
|
$400
[27]
"Never answer a question until it is" this
asked
John
|
$400
[2]
This brand of "dry" ginger ale was created by pharmacist John J. McLaughlin in Toronto
Canada Dry
John
|
$400
[22]
You have hemolytic jaundice, caused by this organ's failure to process enough bilirubin
the liver
Lee
|
$400
[14]
2/3 of this title team that debuted in 1976 were played by a former Wella Balsam model & a former Breck Girl
Charlie's Angels
John
|
$400
[12]
In 1971 he got a Psych degree from Stanford & joined the PGA
Tom Watson
Alicen
|
|
$600
[8]
On January 8 Louisianans celebrate the Battle of this, not the Super Bowl
New Orleans
Lee
|
$600
[28]
Not to nag, but "don't swap" these "in midstream"
horses
John
|
$600
[3]
In the '60s and '70s Anita Bryant told us it's "not just for breakfast anymore"
orange juice
Lee
|
$800
[24]
We call that formication--a symptom of menopause, it's the sensation of these crawling on you
ants
John
|
$600
[15]
On NBC William Conrad played this stout detective--Rex Stout
Nero Wolfe
Alicen
|
$600
[18]
"Old Ironsides" author Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of this city's "Brahmins", a local group of intellectuals
Boston
|
|
$800
[9]
September 12, this state's Defenders' Day, honors troops who held off the British in 1814
Maryland
Lee
|
$800
[29]
"You cannot sell the cow & have" this
milk
Lee
|
$800
[4]
Have a frosty mug of Mug, a brand of this soft drink, first produced in San Francisco in the early 1950s
root beer
John
|
$1,000
[25]
You're at risk for peritonitis, so I'll perform this surgery, done 300,000 times a year in the U.S.
an appendectomy
Alicen
|
$800
[16]
City whose streets were the beat for the detectives in "Homicide: Life on the Street"
Baltimore
Alicen
|
$800
[19]
Homer Watson's line of work; Oscar Wilde called him "The Canadian Constable"
an artist
Alicen
|
|
$1,000
[10]
September 16 is Cherokee Strip Day in this state (& no, there are no totem pole dancers)
Oklahoma
Lee
|
$1,000
[30]
"You can't build" these "in the air & live in them"
castles
John
Alicen
|
$1,000
[5]
Herb Bishop named his soft drink Squirt because he thought it squirted this tangy citrus flavor
grapefruit
Lee
|
DD
$2,200
[23]
Your aching jaw might be caused by bruxism, or doing this while you sleep
grinding your teeth
Lee
|
$1,000
[17]
In 1975 Tony Franciosa played this TV playboy detective played on film by Dean Martin
Matt Helm
John
|
$1,000
[20]
This Watson wrote a book on "Behaviorism" back in 1925
John B. Watson
|
| MISSION CONTROL | POP MUSIC | WHAT THE DICKENS! | CONGRESSIONAL HISTORY | "O" TOWN | PICK A NUMBER FROM 1 TO 10 |
|
$400
[26]
(Video of Cheryl at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.) "Houston, we've had a problem" were the words this mission radioed back to Mission Control, April 13, 1970
Apollo 13
John
|
$400
[1]
The Bangles made their Top 40 debut with this song of weekday woe
"Manic Monday"
Lee
|
$400
[20]
It ends, "God bless us, every one!"
A Christmas Carol
Lee
|
$400
[16]
This cable network's gavel-to-gavel coverage of Congress began March 19, 1979
C-SPAN
Lee
|
$400
[11]
Offutt Air Force Base is on the outskirts of this large Nebraska city
Omaha
John
|
$400
[6]
In the U.S. the Great Lakes are a chain of this many lakes
5
John
|
|
$800
[27]
2001's Genesis, like 1994's Wind, was sent up to study this "wind"
the solar wind
Lee
|
$800
[2]
Producers Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards formed this group that showed us "Good Times"
Chic
|
$800
[21]
"The Parish Boy's Progress" is the subtitle of this 1838 novel
Oliver Twist
|
$800
[17]
He was a Democrat in 1957 when he set a 24-hour, 18-minute filibuster record
Strom Thurmond
|
$800
[12]
This state capital lies at the southernmost edge of Puget Sound
Olympia
John
|
$800
[7]
The cello & ukulele each have this number of strings
4
John
|
|
$1,200
[28]
(Video of Cheryl at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.) This Mission Control console was responsible for these first stages that launch the rockets
boosters
John
|
$1,200
[3]
In 2003 Eminem won an Oscar for this song from "8 Mile"
"Lose Yourself"
|
$1,600
[23]
Nell Trent's grandfather runs the title establishment at the opening of this novel
The Old Curiosity Shop
|
$1,200
[18]
This Watergate Committee chair was on the Senate committee that recommended McCarthy's censure
Sam Ervin, Jr.
|
$1,200
[13]
You'll find an international airport in this Paris suburb
Orly
John
|
$1,200
[8]
Forget about stretching at a softball game; they normally only last this many innings
7
John
|
|
$1,600
[29]
Denmark's Orsted Satellite, launched in 1999, mapped this field around the Earth
the magnetic field
John
|
$1,600
[4]
This Temptations song says, "When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May"
"My Girl"
Lee
|
$2,000
[24]
He takes Charles Darnay's place at the scaffold in "A Tale of Two Cities"
Sydney Carton
|
DD
$2,000
[19]
When this group, the CBC, was founded in 1971, it aimed for 10% of the House to be African-American--not there yet
the Congressional Black Caucus
Lee
|
$1,600
[14]
It's home to Sing Sing prison, bub
Ossining
Alicen
|
$1,600
[9]
A play by George Kaufman & Edna Ferber set "Dinner at" this hour
8
Alicen
|
|
$2,000
[30]
Launched back in 1997, the Cassini-Huygens Satellite should reach this planet in July 2004
Saturn
|
$2,000
[5]
This Aerosmith power ballad says, "Sing with me, sing for the years, sing for the laughter, sing for the tears"
"Dream On"
John
|
DD
$3,000
[22]
This title character becomes a successful author & marries Dora Spenlow
David Copperfield
Lee
|
$2,000
[25]
In 1989 scandal forced this House speaker from Texas to resign--that was a first
Jim Wright
|
$2,000
[15]
This Florida city of about 5,000 is just north of the large lake with which it shares its name
Okeechobee
Alicen
Lee
|
$2,000
[10]
If playing Sir John Falstaff is your life, you've got a total of this many plays by Shakespeare you can appear in
3
Lee
|
From the Latin for "how much", it's an indivisible physical amount
quantum